Atlantic forest
Integrated Nitrogen CAtchment model (INCA) applied to a tropical catchment in the Atlantic Forest, São Paulo, Brazil
... the Atlantic Forest now remains because of wood extraction and urbanisation, including the Metropolitan Area of São Paulo (19 million inhabitants) (Emplasa, ...
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Finding connections in the unexpected detection of Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum DNA in asymptomatic blood donors: a fact in the Atlantic Forest
... Cerutti et al. [19] employed immunofluorescence anti- body test (IFAT) to observe a high percentage of human inhabitants of the Atlantic Forest of Espírito Santo state positive for IgM (13.5%) and IgG (13%) ...
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Simian malaria in the Brazilian Atlantic forest: first description of natural infection of capuchin monkeys (Cebinae subfamily) by Plasmodium simium
... The findings presented here might impact the knowledge on the epidemiology of the disease among human and non-human primates in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. If it becomes clear that the same parasite can ...
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Allometric relationships in Psychotria suterella Müll. Arg. (Rubiaceae) in a fragmented landscape of Atlantic Forest
... Diameter at soil height (dsh cm) and height (m) were measured for all individual P. suterella greater than 10 cm in height present in 100 x 50 m plots located in the six fragments of Atlantic Forest (Te, ...
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Ethnopharmacological survey among migrants living in the Southeast Atlantic Forest of Diadema, São Paulo, Brazil
... the Atlantic Forest [34-36] but also in other Brazilian biomes such as the Amazon Forest [37] the pantanal wetlands [38] and the cerrado savannahs ...
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Edge Effects of Oil Pipeline Canopy Openings on Tree Community Structure and Dynamics in a Montane Atlantic Forest
... The Atlantic Forest is the second largest forest type in Brazil, originally covering an area of 1.1 million km 2 and extending from the states of Rio Grande do Norte to Rio Grande do Sul [11] [12] ...
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A new species of the lenticel fungal genus Claviradulomyces (Ostropales) from the Brazilian Atlantic forest tree Xylopia sericea (Annonaceae)
... Abstract: Claviradulomyces xylopiae sp. nov. is introduced for a fungus occurring in association with abnormal (enlarged, spongy) lenticels of Xylopia sericea (Annonaceae), a common tree of the Atlantic ...
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Separability Analysis of Atlantic Forest Patches by Comparing Parametric and Non Parametric Image Classification Algorithms
... The proposition of methodologies that contemplate this theme allows quan- titative and qualitative evaluations of the remaining patches, as well as their spa- tial distribution [4], being also very important to ...
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Heterospecific Pollen Deposition Among Plants Sharing Hummingbird Pollinators In The Brazilian Atlantic Forest
... Our results show that hummingbirds from the Atlantic Forest community studied usually transport pollen loads from more than one plant species on their bodies. One pollen type usually dominated the body site ...
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Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) assemblages associated with Nidularium and Vriesea bromeliads in Serra do Mar, Atlantic Forest, Brazil
... The subgenus Kerteszia is comprised of 12 species, of which four have been implicated as malaria vectors [12]. Three of these, An. bellator, An. cruzii, and An. homuncu- lus, are important vectors in the Atlantic ...
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Hunting and use of terrestrial fauna used by Caiçaras from the Atlantic Forest coast (Brazil)
... tic Forest, including their knowledge regarding the coastal and marine environment [15,22,23] and their knowledge regarding the terrestrial environment ...Rain Forest hunting is an important component of ...
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Knowledge and use of medicinal plants by local specialists in an region of Atlantic Forest in the state of Pernambuco (Northeastern Brazil)
... of Atlantic Forest medicinal plants; verify the sources of medicinal plants used; determine the relative importance of the species surveyed, and; calculate the informant consensus factor in relation to ...
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Priority areas for watershed service conservation in the Guapi-Macacu region of Rio de Janeiro, Atlantic Forest, Brazil
... the Atlantic Forest Law (Law 11.428/1986) and the Brazilian Forest Code (Law ...The Atlantic Forest Law bans the conversion of secondary forest into land uses such as ...
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Relevance of Seed Bank in the Process of Recovery of the Atlantic Forest in São Paulo – Brazil in the Four Seasons of the Year
... the Atlantic Forest started centuries ago and it is closely linked to the economic history of ...the forest disappeared from its total ...original forest left and even so it still contains 2% ...
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Differences in leaf thermoregulation and water use strategies between three co‐occurring Atlantic forest tree species
... Given anticipated climate changes, it is crucial to understand controls on leaf temper- atures including variation between species in diverse ecosystems. In the first study of leaf energy balance in tropical montane ...
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Rainfall and throughfall chemistry in the Atlantic Forest: a comparison between urban and natural areas (São Paulo State, Brazil)
... the Atlantic forest has been exploited so that, nowadays, much of its original area is occupied by farms as well as urban and industrial centres, including the major urban centres of South America such as ...
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Effects of anthropogenic landscape changes on the abundance and acrodendrophily of Anopheles (Kerteszia) cruzii, the main vector of malaria parasites in the Atlantic Forest in Brazil
... the forest as mosquitoes previously col- lected and marked in the canopy were later collected in ground traps and vice ...the Atlantic Forest may be more common than previ- ously thought [29], ...
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Plasmodium falciparum in the southeastern Atlantic forest: a challenge to the bromeliad malaria paradigm?
... in forest- fragmented areas of the southeastern Atlantic forest where bromeliads are common and dense ...the Atlantic forest where Anopheles (Kerteszia) species are abundant and are ...
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Wild Trypanosoma cruzi I genetic diversity in Brazil suggests admixture and disturbance in parasite populations from the Atlantic Forest region
... between Atlantic Forest loss (88% of its former extent [52]), human population density, and TcI genetic admixture in the ...the Atlantic Forest region ...the Atlantic are ‘enzooses’ , ...
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Genetic diversity of Casearia sylvestris populations in remnants of the Atlantic Forest.
... The study was carried out in two areas of Atlantic Forest remnants of the State of São Paulo. The first area was Mata Santa Genebra (Santa Genebra Woods) (22°49'20''S, 47°06'40''W), in the city of Campinas, ...
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